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• Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Erlang - Day 1

  Posted on May 4, 2013 at 1:58 AM

  @Tom, Some comments on your comment: - io:format takes a format string that works in a similar fashion to C's printf so you could do it as io:format("~w~n", [N]) - You should really only return booleans, true/false, when you actually mean a boolean value. A comm... read more »

• Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Erlang - Day 1

  Posted on Feb 8, 2011 at 10:46 AM

  About the syntax: the easiest way, and also the correct way, is not to view ',' and ';' as terminators (as in C/Java) but as separators . The ';' can only occur between clauses (function, case, if, and receive) and means that either the clause before the ';' is chosen or<... read more »